How Did DC Comics Get Away With Making A Major Superhero Gay Without Making A Major Superhero Gay?

If you answered “by rebooting the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott, who is trapped in an alternate universe called Earth-2 in which he will never interact with the main DC Comics universe, which includes the better-known Green Lanterns like Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, or Kyle Rayner while also skipping the pesky coming-out story altogether,” then…